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| Valley edged: Interviews, marriage ceremonies cancelled | | Geelani-sponsored Iddgah Chalo onJune 7th, Shopian Chalo on June 9th | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Jun 5: Holding the National Conference-led coalition government by its neck, separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani has not only extended his call for shutdown in Valley to two more days but also asked the Kashmiris to march to Shopian on Monday next to register their protest against the alleged rape-cum-murder of two young woman last week.
Even as the 5th and the last announced day of shutdown in Kashmir valley came to an end this evening, Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, declared through his secretary that Kashmir would remain shut for business to more days. Now the 7th consecutive day of Geelani-sponsored shutdown would end in the evening on June 7th. Geelani had initially called for a one-day shutdown on June 1st but subsequently extended it to June 5th. He has also supported Dukhtaraan-e-Millat-sponsored June 7th march to Iddgah and called for a mass march to Shopian on June 8th.
Continuously in detention at his home, Geelani was scheduled to decide about “future course of action” in a meeting of his Hurriyat Conferen... | |
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| LeT planning major strikes in India | | | |
NEW DELHI: To avenge their ideologue Hafiz Mohammed Saeed’s detention on India’s insistence, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), along with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), is planning major strikes across India, including in Jammu and Kashmir.
Credible inputs coming through human intelligence from across the Line of Control (LoC) and through intercepts have indicated that two groups of highly trained terrorists drawn from LeT and JeM, each consisting of 25 men, have been given orders to infiltrate at the earliest opportune moment, sources said.
Armed with sophisticated weapons and carrying plastic explosives these groups, trained on the lines of the Mumbai terror attack perpetrators, have been give... | |
| | | | J&K residents to have unique ID cards | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 05- The government has accorded sanction to the constitution of a State Level Advisory Board to ensure coordination amongst various departments for smooth implementation of the Unique Identification Project for assigning a Unique Identification Number by the Unique Identification Authority of India for every resident in India. Chief Secretary, will be the chairman of the board with Financial Commissioner, Planning & Development, Financial Commissioner, Home, Commissioner/Secretary, Finance, Secretary Rural development, Secretary Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution, and Secretary Revenue, as Members and State Informatics Officer, NIC, as Special invite... | |
| | | | 32 promoted, posted as College Principals | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, JUNE 06-The Government today ordered for adjustment of Thirty-two Incharge Principals of Government Degree Colleges.
Ram Krishan inchrage Principal GDC Mendhar has been posted as Principal GDC, Mendhar. A K. Malohtra inchrage Principal GDC Kathua has been posted as Principal GDC, Kathua. Anita Sudan inchrage Principal GDC Reasi has been posted as Principal GDC, Reasi.
Savitri Sharma inchrage Principal GCW Parade, Jammu has been posted as Principal GCW, Parade, Jammu.
M. L. Parawana inchrage Principal College of Education, Jammu has been posted as Principal College of Education, Jammu. Ashok Kumar has been posted as Principal GDC Boys, Udhampur. Kiran B... | |
| | | | Sorry sportsmanship: J&K’s willow finds easy pitch in Jallandhar, Meerut | | | |
CHAMAN KAUL
JAMMU: Large scale smuggling of superior class willow cleft from Lakhanpur has yielded sleepless nights for the local sports industry unit owners for the last couple of years. Not only in terms of getting good stuff of willow cleft meant for manufacturing high class cricket bats but also to find customers of their produce on reasonable rates in and outside the state.
Two truckloads a day approximately, 5000 to 6000 pieces in a truck load near about Rs 5 crore a month is the outcome of prevailing scenario for the last three-four years sources informed and added that about 1.5 Lakh pieces of willow cleft are being smuggled with a freight of about rupees two lakh per truck ... | |
| | | | Pot calling kettle black | | Congress-BJP: which is communal in Jammu? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5: For years the Congress party has been pumping its lungs out to blame the rival BJP for furthering a communal agenda in Jammu and Kashmir but it has ended up itself doing the same business.
While during Amarnath land agitation the scores of Congress leaders rubbed shoulders with BJP in whatever it was espousing at the same time accused it of communalizing the situation. Communal undercurrents in the Congress, particularly in its Jammu unit, were again felt recently when some its leaders made strange noises on selection of two Ministers from Jammu and Kashmir in the UPA government.
Dr Farooq Abdullah of the National Conference and Ghulam Nabi Azad ... | |
| | | | It’s time Omar heard Valley voices | | Let Govt experiment with AFSPA repeal, troop reduction | | |
NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Delay in accepting the demand for demilitarisation and the repeal of Armed Forces (special Powers) Act (AFSPA) seems to be one of the factors responsible for the current unrest in Kashmir. As long as the separatists are assured of peoples' support for their programmes and plans neither the hawks nor the moderate elements in the two factions of the Hurriyat conference are willing to call it a day.
Since the Assembly polls in fag end of 2008 and during the recent Lok Sabha election the hardliners, headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, have been consistent in calling for protest rallies, shut downs which generate lot of noise, violence, discomfort, anger and bitterness. T... | |
| | | | Prices of essentials escalate in Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jun 5 : Prices of almost all essential commodities, particularly vegetables, has gone up several times, with the traders taking undue advantage of the prevailing situation in Kashmir, where the divisional authorities are busy maintaining law and order.
Even the prices of local vegetables has been increased by the traders.
People alleged that these is shortage of essential commodities, including vegetables and milk, in the market and whatever is available is being sold on very high rates.
A kg of Kashmiri peas, which was just Rs 10 only a day before the strike which started on June 1, in protest against the killing after alleged rape of two women in Sho... | |
| | | | CDS results announced | | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, June 05: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday announced results of the written exam for the Combined Defence Services Examination 2009.
A total of 8,685 candidates have qualified for interview to be conducted by the Service Selection Board (SSB) of the Ministry of Defence.
The SSB will select the candidates for Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun; Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala; Air Force Academy Hyderabad and Officers' Training Academy Chennai.
The result is available on the website of the Press Information Bureau www.pib.nic.in and also on the UPSC website www.upsc.gov.in. The written exam was held in February this year.
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